Provost John Will find that his Swans are but Geese. All of these epigrams survive in the transcript of John Syme of Ryedale, a distributor of stamps, and one of Burns’s friends. The third and ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The editors extract from the Palatine Anthology such epigrams as can be assumed to ...

He was the victim of a severe lampooning in Burns’s third Election Ballad, ‘John Bushby’s Lamentation’, in addition to these epigrams. However, Burns perhaps treated the Earl more savagely ...

We have reports of what Jesus said. He told parables, he told stories, he told little epigrams. Those have a shape to them. Are they like any sayings that are attributed to other people at the ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of American literary history, yet she remains more permanent than most writers ...

Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the ...

Images can also increase the size of email inboxes exponentially. Refrain from the use of quotes or epigrams for professional communications. While these may reflect your personal views, they may not ...

Not a very good book. And not, alas, a very wicked book. There will always be, you know, countless carefully carved epigrams, strung on the silvered threads of old situations. There will be ...

Located in Linji Village south of the county town of Zhengding, the pagoda is also called the Grey Pagoda because it was built of gray bricks. Linji Temple is an ancient temple built in 540 during ...

I am a fan of Alfred Lansing’s Endurance, describing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s trans-Antarctic expedition gone terribly wrong and the leadership he demonstrated to save his crew against incredible odds.

Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Nov. 7 in honor of Dame Maggie Smith, who died in September. Smith began ...